Do we really look alike?

So many times I get told that I look like my brother. Before my mom died people always were shocked when I told them I was adopted because everyone said we looked alike too. I thought in honor of Nike Mom’s foto friday, I would post some pictures to see if y’all still thought me and my little bro still looked alike.

These are mostly older pictures. You can see my old hair too ha ha, and even when I had a bob. Yikes. Since Taylor’s long hair is now also gone, he wears it how it looks in the pictures I posted yesterday from the wedding. I wish I had more pictures of me and him but they are all stuck on my old computer! I need to get that fixed so I can get onto there and get all the documents and pictures off. Soon enough I will.

This is kind of a random post, but enjoy!

This was one of the pictures we took for one of our family Christmas Cards back in ’05

Easter, right after my mom died. Right before I randomly cut off 11 inches of my hair and Taylor still had super long hair!

A pre-dance picture after I chopped my hair off

This was another pre-dance picture, my hair was slowly growing back!

Then I cut my hair short again and this was the first year he was a lifeguard and Huntington State Beach. This year will be his fourth year already!

At his high school graduation party.. My hair was blondish and long again?

At his high school graduation party

This is a picture of me and my mom too. This is the last picture I took with her, and I like to think that it’s a great picture!

Crazy how I still look so much like my brother and I looked like my mom huh! People always ask me about adoption and how I feel about it etc. and if any of you have any questions feel free to ask me. I like to talk about it and am not offended at all! Maybe I will post more about my adoption soon if you guys would like to know more. I hope everyone has a great weekend! I have a wonderful 16 miler planner tomorrow and I am going to work on re-painting my dresser and getting some shelves up in my room. I also hope to see the movie, “I Love you, Man”. It looks hilarious!

xoxox

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One Saturday Morning

I remember when I would watch that in the mornings on Saturdays on ABC. It was great to wake up and not have to worry about cleaning the house, paying the bills, doing laundry and taking care of countless errands, wasn’t it? When the most important thing in life was the cartoons and your morning cereal. Man, I still love Kix. 

Sometimes I’m so happy that I’m so busy with my life and don’t get me wrong, I do love my life and the place I am at right now as a person. I am usually a very positive, happy person as well but sometimes there are some things in life that disappoint you. I don’t want my blog to be all about airing my dirty laundry but today I have a lot of family things going on that won’t be easy for me to deal with. If you could send good thoughts + prayers my way that would be much appreciated. I don’t think you all realize how much a comment brightens my day. 

I can’t wait to run tomorrow and be able to put this behind me. 

Thank you all,

xoxo

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Koops for Council!

So as I said yesterday, I was going to a small election party with some family friends to support our close family friend, Dan Koops, as he ran for a seat on the city council for the city of Bellflower. Well the party was actually rather large and fun! They have the amazing and quite delicious Salazars of Bellflower cater and it was yummy. I could have possibly had two churros. Though it was a very close race, in the end Dan came out behind the first place by only 109 votes, and ahead of third place by 113 votes. He got the 2nd seat for city council. It was an exciting night, and of course I had to take some pictures.

Signs were on the front of every lawn in the neighborhood.

Watching the results trickling in.

My cousin Olie and I patiently awaiting the results.

Finally, after a close race, he won!

Congrats Dan and the whole Koops Family!

Tonight, luckily, it’s a gym night for me. I say luckily because I woke up to the sound of rain outside. I don’t run in the rain so I knew it was a good thing that tonight I’ll be hanging out with some cool meatheads and some high schoolers at my local 24. I’ll be doing the cable machine again and then some free weights and I continue on the 200 sit ups a day routine. When I do the sit ups I always put my feet under the couch and just go to town. It usually takes me around 6-10 minutes to finish all of them and I switch from going all the way up and down to doing some arm punches and also doing some quick ones that focus more on the lower abs. They always kill me every time I do them, but at the same time, once I get partially done I just focus on being done and not having to do them again until the next day. It really helps when you’re dying and have 50 more to do.

Tomorrow I’ll have some more deals and then also I’m going to post some of my music because there have been some requests for that.

xoxo

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